Luminor bank economist Žygimantas Mauricas says that inflation continues to be affected by the jump in energy resource prices and services inflation. In addition, a significant part of its growth is made up of heating prices. According to him, annual inflation should continue to grow and approach a double-digit number by March next year.
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“It is moving towards 6–7 percent in the second half of the year, and that is a threshold that will certainly not go unnoticed, especially considering that part of that inflation is hidden, because a significant part of the growth is made up of heating prices, which are calculated all year round for technical reasons, but are only felt during the heating season,” Ž. Mauricas told BNS on Thursday.
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